Garment-supporter



(No Model.)

0. O. SHELBY.

GARMENT SUPPORTBR.

No. 429,779. Patented June 10, 1890.

witness? UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTOPHER O. SHELBY, OF PATERSON, NEV JERSEY.

GARMENT- 3U PPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,779, dated June 10,1890.

Application filed April 5, 1890- Serial No. 346,646. (No model.) 7

accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to theletters of reference marked thereon.

This invention relates to that class of garment or hosiery supporterscommonly employed by children and misses in which a band of elastic orother suitable fabric is secured to the hose or garment to be supportedand the other to a waist or waistband, the object being to provide aclasp, or more properly a holder, for the end of the supportingband,which is adapted to engage with a button on the waistband, waist, orhose, as the case may be, and when so engaged will be tightly and firmlyheld without a possibility of escaping under any condition untilpositively released by hand, and which may be released with the greatestease when desired.

With these ends in view the invention consists in a holder or clasp forengagement with the button, having at one end a relatively large loop oropening through which the button readily passes, and a smaller loop oropening at the opposite end, through which the button cannot pass, thepassage between the 'two openings through which the stem or attachingthreads of the button pass being sinuous or preferably twisted,necessitating the turning of the holder edgewise as the button passesthrough the same. Further, the invention consists in certain noveldetails of construction to be presently described, and pointed outparticularly in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of asupporter constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an edgeview of the button holder or clasp. Fig. 3 is a view showing theposition the parts occupy when the button is first inserted. Fig. 4 is aview showing the button in transit from one opening to the other andimmediately before assuming the position shown in Fig. 1.

Like letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

A indicates the supporting web or elastic, consisting, preferably, of asingle length with clasps or attaching devices at each end and anintermediate buckle B for adjusting the length of the same to fitdifferent persons or for hose of different lengths.

At the bottom any desired clasp may be placed, but in the preferred formthe one shown is employed, consisting of a simple frame 0 of metal,having the central opening with downwardly-converging walls broadenedand strengthened by the beads c to afford a good bearing and prevent anydanger of tearing the garment or hose, as will be readily understood.

The clasp or holder for the button D, which is on the waist orwaistband, is attached to the upper end of the supporting web orelastic, and consists of a metal frame E, having a relatively largeopening, 6 at the bottom, through which the button F readily passes anda smaller opening or loop 6' at the upper end, through which the buttoncannot readily pass, said openings or loops being connected by a sinuousor twisted passage, as 6 through which the shank or attaching threads ofthe button must pass in going from the lower to the upper loop.

In the preferred construction the frame E "is formed of wire with theends brought together at the bottom and united or held by a smallcylinder G, around which the supporting web or elastic passes, the loopsin the frame being formed by bending the wire properly, as shown, thewires at the point of crossing being slightly separated, leaving thefree and unobstructed passage 6 as shown clearly in Figs. 2 and 3. \Viththis form of device it will be seen that the passage from one loop tothe other is sinuous or twisted, and hence when the button is firstinserted the holder or clasp has to be turned over, as shown in Fig. 3;then as the holder is drawn down it is turned up edgewise, as shown inFig. 4;

and, finally, when it has reached the upper loop it has turnedcompletely over, and the button cannot escape unless the motions arereversed.

The operation of engaging or disengaging the holder is extremely simple,and the button when engaged is held beyond a possibility of accidentalescape, the overlying clothing, it anything, tending to retain the sameby keeping the holder down flat.

It will be noted and is obvious without further description that theimproved holder may be employed at either or both ends of the supporteror in any position desired, and that the sinuous passage from one loopto the other may be made so as to do away with the necessity of turningthe holder entirely over, and hence I do not wish to be limited to theexact construction shown.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- 1. Animproved button holder or clasp for garmentsupporters, formed of theframe crossed to form a large lower and a small upper loop, and bent atthe crossing-point to CHRISTOPHER C. SHELBY.

Vitnesses:

T. W. RANDALL, JAMES G. BLAUVELT.

